Friends and Traitors (Inspector Troy series) - Softcover

Buch 8 von 9: Inspector Troy

Lawton, John (Author)

 
9781611855159: Friends and Traitors (Inspector Troy series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1611855152 ISBN 13: 9781611855159
Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

A newest novel in the Inspector Troy series, a tale of Cold War spy dealings centred around Guy Burgess. For readers of John le Carré, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.

It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes his entire family on 'the Grand Tour' for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam. Restaurants, galleries and concert halls. But Frederick Troy never gets to Amsterdam.

After a concert in Vienna he is approached by an old friend whom he has not seen for years - Guy Burgess, a spy for the Soviets, who says something extraordinary: 'I want to come home.' Troy dumps the problem on MI5 who send an agent to debrief Burgess - but when the man is gunned down only yards from the embassy, the whole plan unravels with alarming speed and Troy finds himself a suspect.

As he fights to prove his innocence, Troy discovers that Burgess is not the only ghost who has returned to haunt him...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Lawton worked for Channel 4 for many years, and, among many others, produced Harold Pinter's O Superman, the least-watched most-argued-over programme of the 90s. He has written eight novels in his Troy series, two Joe Wilderness novels, the standalone Sweet Sunday, a couple of short stories and the occasional essay. He writes very slowly and almost entirely on the hoof in the USA or Italy, but professes to be a resident of a tiny village in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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Verlag
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1611855152
ISBN 13 
9781611855159
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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